Jeff Barnes - Category 1


Racing Age: 44

Hometown: Edmunton, Alberta

Current Residence: Iowa City, IA

Years Racing: 22

Previous Teams: Saturn Canada, Cyclemeisters Calgary, Velocity Cycling Edmonton


What I do other than bike racing: work and travel

Family Status: single

Best accomplishments on a bike: I did well enough to enable me to race in France, Belgium, Holland and Japan over the years.

How and when did you get into bike racing? I used cycling as dryland training for hockey.  When I finished playing hockey I kept on cycling.

What would you consider your best strengths as a cyclist? Getting in long breakaways, hopefully with no one else so I don’t have to sprint!  Hanging out at coffee houses in Tucson.

What is your most shining moment on a bike? Winning an important ‘selection’ stage race; thereby allowing me to represent Canada at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in the RR along with the TTT.

Most embarrassing moment on a bike? A few things that come to mind are wild parsnip, thin ice, pitching myself onto the ground in the Amana sprint.   Pick one I guess.

When off the bike, what can we often find you doing? Mining for old abandoned derailleurs found on the Kalona trails and selling them on eBay.

Favorite movies? Napolean Dynamite, Sideways, No Country for Old Men

Favorite musical artist? Arcade Fire, G’n’R, Stompin’ Tom Connors

Favorite food (no pasta, please!)? French Poutine (great recovery food after a long race!)

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